Research and Innovation Promotion Headquarters

While setting out goal to build Japan's industrial competitive advantage,
we play a part in creating innovation. Particularly we work on the enhancement
of marketing capabilities and strengthening collaboration with companies
and universities, manage strategically our intellectual property and promote
regional innovation so that we can strengthen our “bridging” function.

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Director-GeneralKouji Watari

Deputy Director-GeneralNatsuko Sakai

【Outline of priority strategies】

●Enhancement of our technological strength

With the purpose of reinforcing our technological strength, we promote
technology fusion and various collaborations with national/international
companies, universities and research institutes. Moreover, in order to
promote the commercialization of our technology, we develop systems for
building up our intellectual property in a strategic way.

●Expanding cooperation with enterprises

By the appointment of experts who have worked for companies, we build effective
alliances through joint research, licensing, start-up support, and international
standardization. Through active exchange of opinions with companies, we
improve the system to exactly reflect the needs of industry. Furthermore,
we provide companies aspiring for commercialization with technical consulting
services.

●Strengthening regional cooperations

To reinforce technological strength of regional medium-sized enterprises
which is the base of competitiveness in regional economy, we promote cooperation
with public research institutions and local governments and work on joint
research and human resource development. Moreover, we reinforce networks
with regional medium-sized enterprises and public research institutions
so that we can match the regional needs with technology.

Research and Innovation Promotion Planning Office

Promoting strategies that cultivate the advantages of AIST

URL : https://unit.aist.go.jp/raipo/

E-mail : raiso-general-ml@aist.go.jp

TEL : 029-862-6040 FAX : 029-862-6130

(from outside Japan： TEL ： +81-29-862-6040 / FAX ： +81-29-862-6130)

【Director】
Jun
Tanba

We review all the divisions inside Research and Innovation Promotion Headquarters,
undertake planning related to the strategies of research cooperation. We
particularly support research projects which fuse multiple research fields
and promote cooperation with regional industries, so that we can move forward
with projects that create innovation.

Technology Marketing Office

Enhancing of our marketing capabilities

URL : https://unit.aist.go.jp/tmo/

E-mail : tmo-info-ml@aist.go.jp

TEL : 029-862-6026 FAX : 029-862-6130

(from outside Japan： TEL ： +81-29-862-6026 / FAX ： +81-29-862-6130))

【Director】
Kuniaki
Tatsumi

We make the best use of marketing information that we collect and analyze
in order to strengthen and expand our cooperation with companies together
with Innovation Coordinators deployed across all the research bases of
AIST throughout Japan. Moreover, we meet the needs of companies by means
of our technical consulting services.

Innovation Center for Technology Transfer and Startups

Executing the commercialization of AIST's technology seeds

URL : https://unit.aist.go.jp/ictes/ci/

E-mail : dsu-koho-ml@aist.go.jp

TEL : 029-862-6655 FAX : 029-862-6656

(from outside Japan： TEL ： +81-29-862-6655 / FAX ： +81-29-862-6656)

【Director】
Kazuya
Takai

Our mission is promoting the commercialization of “echnology seeds” through
(1) licensing intellectual property with the purpose of technology transfer
to companies, and (2) starting up venture business and supporting start-ups.
From the point of needs-oriented view, we consider the optimum way of commercialization,
and while advancing cooperation with other institutions, we strive for
creation of innovation.

Intellectual Property and Standardization Promotion Division

Strengthening the foundation toward further utilization of research results

URL : https://unit.aist.go.jp/ipsta/

E-mail : chizai-hyoujun-pl-ml@aist.go.jp

TEL : 029-862-6153 FAX : 029-862-6154

(from outside Japan： TEL ： +81-29-862-6153 / FAX ： +81-29-862-6154)

【Director】
Tetsuya
Nagaishi

We promote the activities of intellectual property and standardization in an integrated manner for the actual
implementation and dissemination of our research results. We develop policies for intellectual property on research projects,
appropriately manage intellectual property rights generated from research results, and promote the activities of national/ international standardization.

Collaboration Promotion and International Aff airs Division

Supporting the Creation of Innovative Technology Seeds through Promotion
of Collaboration

URL : https://unit.aist.go.jp/cpiad/sgk-renkei/

E-mail : cpiad-ml@aist.go.jp

TEL : 029-862-6144 FAX : 029-862-6148

(from outside Japan： TEL ： +81-29-862-6144 / FAX ： +81-29-862-6148)

【Director】
Masaki
Taniguchi

We promote collaboration among industry, academia and overseas institutions with the purpose of
supporting the research process from finding promising “researc seeds・to forming them into innovative technology seeds. We also work on building research
networks between AIST and other domestic/international institutions by executing memoranda of understanding (MOU) and creating a framework for human resource exchange.
Other missions we are engaged in are the arrangement of contracts for joint research and commission research as well as the management of export controls for secured
material and technology transfer to overseas institutions.

Regional Collaboration Promotion Division

Promoting regional cooperation with regional bases as a hub

URL : http://unit.aist.go.jp/rcpd/

E-mail : rcpd.regi-regular-ml@aist.go.jp

TEL : 029-862-6644 FAX : 029-862-6130

(from outside Japan： TEL ： +81-29-862-6644 / FAX ： +81-29-862-6130)

【Director】
Tomoaki
Minowa

We undertake necessary measures and projects for promoting regional innovations. We contribute to vitalizing
regional industries by providing seamless-R&D supporting services to medium-sized enterprises in cooperation with public research institutions and local governments where
regional bases function as a hub, and by enhancing the competitiveness of regional medium-sized enterprises to support their global operational presence. We also hold workshops and
training courses and conduct R&D supporting projects in cooperation with the Council for Promotion of Industrial Technology Collaboration to strengthen partnerships with public research institutions.